| Debiased orbital and absolute magnitude distribution of the near-Earth objects WF Bottke Jr, A Morbidelli, R Jedicke, JM Petit, HF Levison, P Michel, ... Icarus 156 (2), 399-433, 2002 | 960 | 2002 |
| Hayabusa2 arrives at the carbonaceous asteroid 162173 Ryugu—A spinning top–shaped rubble pile S Watanabe, M Hirabayashi, N Hirata, N Hirata, R Noguchi, Y Shimaki, ... Science 364 (6437), 268-272, 2019 | 685 | 2019 |
| Dynamical lifetimes of objects injected into asteroid belt resonances BJ Gladman, F Migliorini, A Morbidelli, V Zappala, P Michel, A Cellino, ... Science 277 (5323), 197-201, 1997 | 537 | 1997 |
| Rotational breakup as the origin of small binary asteroids KJ Walsh, DC Richardson, P Michel Nature 454 (7201), 188-191, 2008 | 496 | 2008 |
| The geomorphology, color, and thermal properties of Ryugu: Implications for parent-body processes S Sugita, R Honda, T Morota, S Kameda, H Sawada, E Tatsumi, ... Science 364 (6437), eaaw0422, 2019 | 437 | 2019 |
| Thermal fatigue as the origin of regolith on small asteroids M Delbo, G Libourel, J Wilkerson, N Murdoch, P Michel, KT Ramesh, ... Nature 508 (7495), 233-236, 2014 | 418 | 2014 |
| Collisions and gravitational reaccumulation: Forming asteroid families and satellites P Michel, W Benz, P Tanga, DC Richardson Science 294 (5547), 1696-1700, 2001 | 359 | 2001 |
| Properties of rubble-pile asteroid (101955) Bennu from OSIRIS-REx imaging and thermal analysis DN DellaGiustina, JP Emery, DR Golish, B Rozitis, CA Bennett, KN Burke, ... Nature Astronomy 3 (4), 341-351, 2019 | 313 | 2019 |
| Debiased orbit and absolute-magnitude distributions for near-Earth objects M Granvik, A Morbidelli, R Jedicke, B Bolin, WF Bottke, E Beshore, ... Icarus 312, 181-207, 2018 | 313 | 2018 |
| An artificial impact on the asteroid (162173) Ryugu formed a crater in the gravity-dominated regime M Arakawa, T Saiki, K Wada, K Ogawa, T Kadono, K Shirai, H Sawada, ... Science 368 (6486), 67-71, 2020 | 295 | 2020 |
| AIDA DART asteroid deflection test: Planetary defense and science objectives AF Cheng, AS Rivkin, P Michel, J Atchison, O Barnouin, L Benner, ... Planetary and Space Science 157, 104-115, 2018 | 288 | 2018 |
| Successful kinetic impact into an asteroid for planetary defence RT Daly, CM Ernst, OS Barnouin, NL Chabot, AS Rivkin, AF Cheng, ... Nature 616 (7957), 443-447, 2023 | 286 | 2023 |
| The ESA Hera mission: detailed characterization of the DART impact outcome and of the binary asteroid (65803) Didymos P Michel, M Küppers, AC Bagatin, B Carry, S Charnoz, J De Leon, ... The planetary science journal 3 (7), 160, 2022 | 285 | 2022 |
| Shape of (101955) Bennu indicative of a rubble pile with internal stiffness OS Barnouin, MG Daly, EE Palmer, RW Gaskell, JR Weirich, CL Johnson, ... Nature geoscience 12 (4), 247-252, 2019 | 280 | 2019 |
| Super-catastrophic disruption of asteroids at small perihelion distances M Granvik, A Morbidelli, R Jedicke, B Bolin, WF Bottke, E Beshore, ... Nature 530 (7590), 303-306, 2016 | 271 | 2016 |
| The OSIRIS‐REx target asteroid (101955) Bennu: Constraints on its physical, geological, and dynamical nature from astronomical observations DS Lauretta, AE Bartels, MA Barucci, EB Bierhaus, RP Binzel, WF Bottke, ... Meteoritics & Planetary Science 50 (4), 834-849, 2015 | 251 | 2015 |
| Craters, boulders and regolith of (101955) Bennu indicative of an old and dynamic surface KJ Walsh, ER Jawin, RL Ballouz, OS Barnouin, EB Bierhaus, ... Nature Geoscience 12 (4), 242-246, 2019 | 248 | 2019 |
| The near-Earth object population B Gladman, P Michel, C Froeschlé Icarus 146 (1), 176-189, 2000 | 244 | 2000 |
| The double asteroid redirection test (DART): Planetary defense investigations and requirements AS Rivkin, NL Chabot, AM Stickle, CA Thomas, DC Richardson, ... The Planetary Science Journal 2 (5), 173, 2021 | 243 | 2021 |
| Momentum transfer from the DART mission kinetic impact on asteroid Dimorphos AF Cheng, HF Agrusa, BW Barbee, AJ Meyer, TL Farnham, SD Raducan, ... Nature 616 (7957), 457-460, 2023 | 242 | 2023 |
Derek Charles RichardsonEmeritus Professor of Astronomy, University of MarylandVerified email at umd.edu
